NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — When a woman I knew wanted to upgrade the air conditioning in her apartment, I had my very own Tocqueville moment.The contractor put in a unit and got an earful: It wasn't cold enough. He put in another and got a temper tantrum...
Bermuda’s struggling sports clubs received $935,000 in Government funding yesterday — money that will go towards upgrading facilities across the Island.
With no end in sight to Government’s multi-million dollar investment in local sports, Sports Mini...
DATE: Mar 31, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Colin Thompson
Every politician was once a naive newcomer, enthusiastic, full of ideas and the belief that Bermuda is capable of being better than it is and that our people deserve better and more than they have.
As my political career draws to a close, I find myse...
United Bermuda Party Education spokesman Neville Darrell says Michael Dunkley doesn’t have what it takes to lead the party to victory.
He said he hoped the party would not leave the Dunkley/Gordon-Pamplin leadership ticket as a done deal and would lo...
BERMUDA may play host to an international coaching course next year, said David Lambert, head of the Bermuda Lawn Tennis Association.Lambert said the prospect of hosting the course came about after the visit of Anthony Jeremiah, the International Ten...
A RECENT poll indicates that 80 per cent of the population believes Government is failing in the preservation of Bermuda's open spaces.The findings were part of a Media Impact Research poll carried out by Research.bm in February which interviewed 400...
Education Minister Randy Horton will today be presented with the results of an inquiry into how mould was able to contaminate and force the closure of the Island’s largest public school.
A three-member independent panel brought in by Government to in...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
GOVERNMENT must do more to encourage youngsters to take up technical careers, it has been claimed.And Opposition MP Grant Gibbons warned that, unless better training facilities were provided, the island would be flooded with foreign workers.
Dr. Gibb...
LAST night a College spokeswoman said: “There are seven regular technical education programmes offered by the Division of Applied Science & Technology at Bermuda College. “All seven programmes have students enrolled in them and the numbers vary accor...
WAYNE Furbert has ended months of speculation by resigning as leader of the Opposition United Bermuda Party.But it will be at least another seven days — and up to two weeks — before his successor is selected.
At a press conference yesterday afternoon...
